Four-way spires bargello pillow needlepoint pattern
Intermediate · 5 colors · 12 × 12 in · 13 mesh
Colors: BluesChange
Download free PDFPDF, US Letter · 169 KB
Bands of tall points like rows of spires, in five blues from navy to pale blue, run in from all four sides of a square and meet along the diagonals. At the center they close into a four-pointed star around a small navy diamond.
Size and details
The chart is 156 × 156 canvas threads: a pillow on 13 mesh canvas.
Worked in straight stitches over 4 canvas threads, shorter where the quarters meet and at the edges: upright in the top and bottom quarters, lying across in the left and right ones.
Intermediate: 5 colors. The chart is in long straight stitches over more than 1 canvas thread, in 4 quarters that have to line up where they meet. With up to 9 colors, that is Intermediate, and with more it is Advanced.
| Mesh | Stitched size | Canvas to cut |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | 15.6 × 15.6 in 39.6 × 39.6 cm | 19.6 × 19.6 in 49.8 × 49.8 cm |
| 12 | 13 × 13 in 33 × 33 cm | 17 × 17 in 43.2 × 43.2 cm |
| 13 | 12 × 12 in 30.5 × 30.5 cm | 16 × 16 in 40.6 × 40.6 cm |
| 14 | 11.1 × 11.1 in 28.3 × 28.3 cm | 15.1 × 15.1 in 38.5 × 38.5 cm |
| 18 | 8.7 × 8.7 in 22 × 22 cm | 12.7 × 12.7 in 32.2 × 32.2 cm |
Mesh is the number of canvas threads to the inch; the row in bold is the mesh this chart is sized for. Canvas to cut includes a margin of 2 in (5.1 cm) of bare canvas on every side. Leave at least that much.
Paper for the PDF
Threads and canvas
Blues
- DMC 800 Pale Delft Blue 5,208 squares about 33 yards
- DMC 809 Delft Blue 4,928 squares about 31 yards
- DMC 823 Dark Navy Blue 4,760 squares about 30 yards
- DMC 799 Medium Delft Blue 4,736 squares about 30 yards
- DMC 797 Royal Blue 4,704 squares about 30 yards
24,336 squares in the chart, one canvas thread each, about 154 yards in all. The yards are estimates for 13 mesh.
Purples
- DMC 211 Light Lavender 5,208 squares about 33 yards
- DMC 210 Medium Lavender 4,928 squares about 31 yards
- DMC 550 Very Dark Violet 4,760 squares about 30 yards
- DMC 208 Very Dark Lavender 4,736 squares about 30 yards
- DMC 3837 Ultra Dark Lavender 4,704 squares about 30 yards
24,336 squares in the chart, one canvas thread each, about 154 yards in all. The yards are estimates for 13 mesh.
Greens
- DMC 907 Light Parrot Green 5,208 squares about 33 yards
- DMC 704 Bright Chartreuse 4,928 squares about 31 yards
- DMC 890 Ultra Dark Pistachio Green 4,760 squares about 30 yards
- DMC 702 Kelly Green 4,736 squares about 30 yards
- DMC 909 Very Dark Emerald Green 4,704 squares about 30 yards
24,336 squares in the chart, one canvas thread each, about 154 yards in all. The yards are estimates for 13 mesh.
Sunset
- DMC 745 Light Pale Yellow 5,208 squares about 33 yards
- DMC 726 Light Topaz 4,928 squares about 31 yards
- DMC 550 Very Dark Violet 4,760 squares about 30 yards
- DMC 970 Light Pumpkin 4,736 squares about 30 yards
- DMC 600 Very Dark Cranberry 4,704 squares about 30 yards
24,336 squares in the chart, one canvas thread each, about 154 yards in all. The yards are estimates for 13 mesh.
Grays
- DMC BLANC White 5,208 squares about 33 yards
- DMC 415 Pearl Gray 4,928 squares about 31 yards
- DMC 310 Black 4,760 squares about 30 yards
- DMC 414 Dark Steel Gray 4,736 squares about 30 yards
- DMC 3799 Very Dark Pewter Gray 4,704 squares about 30 yards
24,336 squares in the chart, one canvas thread each, about 154 yards in all. The yards are estimates for 13 mesh.
Thread colors are approximate screen matches to DMC numbers. Check against real thread before you buy.
The numbers are DMC color numbers, which its six-strand cotton and its pearl cotton share. Wool and silk are numbered differently: match those by eye. For how many strands and which needle, see which thread suits which mesh.
The yards are of thread as it is threaded in the needle: stitched with several strands together, a thread takes that many yards of single strand for every yard listed. For six-strand cotton on 13 mesh, the thread and needle chart gives 7 or 8 strands.
You also need blank needlepoint canvas (mono canvas) in the mesh you choose (see mesh sizes), cut to the size in the table above, and a tapestry needle.
An estimate. The length of thread one stitch uses on the front and back of the canvas, times the number of stitches, plus 30 percent for starting, ending and the tail left in the needle. Each count is estimated as upright over 4 canvas threads and rounded up to a whole yard, so the yards in all are a little more than the thread calculator gives for every stitch at once. The 30 percent is this site's own choice. The thread calculator works the same estimate for any count and mesh.
Getting it onto your canvas
This is a counted chart: one square of the chart is one canvas thread. Find the center of your canvas and the center of the chart (the red arrows above and to the left of the chart), and count out from there, a color at a time.
Nothing is printed on the canvas, so no transfer is needed. How to needlepoint covers the first stitches.
Downloads
- Chart for US Letter paper PDF · 5 pages
- Chart for A4 paper PDF · 6 pages
Each file has the thread key and the sizes on its first page, then the chart with a symbol in every square and a heavier line every ten. A chart too large for one page is divided over several, with two rows or columns repeated in gray where the pages join; a page may be turned on its side for a part that is wider than it is tall.
For your own stitching, gifts and handmade pieces you sell. Do not resell or share this PDF.
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